How Times Have Changed.

[Lutra Lutra 611]

Hello to all members,

Apologies for my somewhat long hiatus regarding posting anything that may be of interest to certain readers.

After perusing certain books and magazines a short while back, I thought this post may be of some interest to the good terrier lads on this forum.

A certain magazine published in the year of (1958) caught my attention regarding the advertising of certain litters of terrier pups for sale. We all know how times have changed, unfortunately not for the better! However, one has to make do with what one has in the way times are today.

The first advertisement reads:

JACK RUSSELL TERRIERS, small and low, keen ratters and rabbiters, fox and badger; several at stud; puppies for sale; as exported.-Miss Sixton Breach Farm Kennels, Charlton Adam, Somerton, Som TEL Charlton Mackeral S.A.E.

 

Advertisement number 2: genuine smooth working terrier puppies, (5 guineas); white|tan markings on head; narrow,, small; dead game

Guaranteed - Smith, Gmekeeper, Winkburn, Newark, Notts.

 

Advertisement Number 3: JACK RUSSELL PUPPIES, of the finest breeding possible, parents can be seen at work six days a week. The only kennel in the country containing 5 stud dogs and 25 brood bitches that are all absolutely first class above and below ground.(Satisfied customers are my best advert) Rough, smooth and broken coats-Bert Gripton, Hunt Terrier man, Blymhill, Shifnal, Salop.

Hoping this little snippet offers some readers much pleasure and perhaps there are some older people who can relate to various events of yesteryear.

Good luck, Stephen....

[pablo esc 1,598]

You could buy a Russell about thirty years ago ,off a farm anywhere around your area and it turn out to be a good worker !

[lurchers 2,890]

30yrs ago you either got them for nowt or payed a £5 for them.

[dmick 22]

38 yrs ago i was emigrating i put an add in the local paper selling bull/fox for digging brock it was illegal , put my address down as had no phone , dog was gone in 2 days had no hasell , but for 3months after i left they were still people calling to my mothers house looking to buy the dog .

[Squirrel_Basher 17,100]

Rose tinted glasses were in fashion as well pabs lol.30 years ago around me any way was the advent of the black terrier take over .A few boys had them and it soon spread to whoever was serious about terrier work .I get the nostalgia but I remember the Russels well and what sticks in my mind is the insesant yapping from their type ,a somewhat blinkered memory but there it is .

[pablo esc 1,598]

Noticed above what lutra , put ,SAE.classic. and someone took the time and correspondence to do it.and as you said above how someone would get back in touch through your address or a parent or friends phone number. When I started following hunting , a full price Russell was 15 ,25 quid. Must been brilliant times , people , up to thirty years beforehand

[pablo esc 1,598]

Rose tinted glasses were in fashion as well pabs lol.30 years ago around me any way was the advent of the black terrier take over .A few boys had them and it soon spread to whoever was serious about terrier work .I get the nostalgia but I remember the Russels well and what sticks in my mind is the insesant yapping from their type ,a somewhat blinkered memory but there it is .

yes , the was nothing wrong with the coloured dogs and true types that we're getting worked then and in people's yards

[pablo esc 1,598]

Rose tinted glasses were in fashion as well pabs lol.30 years ago around me any way was the advent of the black terrier take over .A few boys had them and it soon spread to whoever was serious about terrier work .I get the nostalgia but I remember the Russels well and what sticks in my mind is the insesant yapping from their type ,a somewhat blinkered memory but there it is .

the man who I bought my first black terrier off,a unknown name , only known in the small right circles ),used to have a russel till old age , good worker , met gripton at a show and bg said he didnt like the black dogs , too hard , big

[Glyn..... 5,208]

i met Bert at a taxidermist house and at a show or two a nice man i was only a kid , chatted terriers with him he didn't like hard stupid dogs which many black terriers where but not all... but i'm pretty sure someone told me that some of Berts best terriers in the 70's where white sports from the Breay/Buck line or at least carried lines to them

[ziggy 619]

Got a cinna film with Bert gripton on shows him digging foxes an badgers shows him brake throu an 5 6 9 terriers poping out lol shows him dropping stuff an letting packs of terriers chase them cross feilds two old Bedford vans open an 20 to thrity terriers give chase....

[jiggy 3,209]

To be fair them little yappy Russell's were probably the best dog to use at the time and mute black dogs were of no use until terrier locaters came about which complimented the up and at em dogs.

[eastcoast 4,221]

5 guineas would of been a lot of money in 1958. But it was about the time that the working man had a little bit of disposable income if he wanted to improve/take a chance on what would of always been around locally .